The Stucky Archive

Steve finds himself in need of a date for a wedding. Sam sets him up with a friend, but doesn't tell Steve what that friend does for a living. It doesn't take long for Steve to find himself in way too deep.

Merman Bucky

the arms of the ocean are carrying me by mambo

When a merperson kisses a human they can breathe underwater for a time. When Steve realizes who this merman is he wants to stay forever.

Sharp Teeth and Bird Bones by Shaish, Stringlish

I'll always find you.

Close Your Eyes and Dream by die_traumerei

Steve Rogers hooks up with this really hot mer-guy for a one-night stand. It's all pretty much downhill falling in love and being happy from there.

(An AU with Steve Rogers as we know, love, and occasionally sigh in frustration at him, but a modern, merman Bucky Barnes.)

Pearly Tears by IsabellaJack

"Were there ever suicide attempts or bodies recovered?"

It's quiet and Steve then realizes what she must have read into that. He chuckles to change the mood. "Pegs. It's not what you think. I just ... I saw something in the water and I wasn't sure. Maybe I hallucinated it."

"Okay,” she answers calmly. “And the answer is no. At least not that I know of."

(incomplete)

Merman Steve

Fins by rinnya

An AU about some college students.

One of them is a merman, two of them are gay, seven of them are stuck in the same house, and everyone just wants to have some fun.

Blue Scales by chaya

Ridiculous AU. Bucky and merSteve met as kids in Brooklyn. When Bucky goes off to war, Steve gets the help of Merskine to get some human legs and extra muscle to go save his POW boyfriend. Together they form the Howling Commandos and fight the good fight before going down in a plane together and getting frozen for decades. When they wake up, canon is more or less restored, minus the part where Bucky was never kidnapped a second time and Steve shapeshifts back and forth from scaley to fleshy. (All very minor details.)

Time and Tide by togina

Sarah Rogers smiled, and ran her thin fingers through Bucky’s perfect hair. Bucky stilled, and Steve had the feeling that no one tended to touch the Barnes children besides each other. “The sea is never fair, lad,” she said, sad but certain, and Bucky swallowed hard and looked away. “But she takes what’s hers, in the end.”

seaglass and promises by itsmylifekay 

It’s like dealing with his sister all over again. Only this time, instead of plucking a little girl out of the water, he’s trying to put a full-grown merman back into it.

Captain America trashes his motorcycle a lot. Tony says he'll fix it, then never gets around to it and just buys him a new one. Steve, the Depression-era kid, can't stand the waste and goes looking for somewhere near him in Brooklyn where he can get his bike fixed. That's how he finds Red Star Bike Repair, and the hot Russian-immigrant bike racer who runs it: all long hair and muscles and tattoos. And for the first time since he woke from the ice, Steve feels a connection to someone; a comfort in the other man's silences and his space, an attraction in his sheer skill at racing. But James Barnes isn't exactly who he seems...

Steve was a mage, not a fighter: he'd entered the tournament to face other mages. But when he had to face the Winter Soldier, he never thought he'd wind up being responsible for him, even if it was only for the time it took to get him off the Baron's lands. He hadn't dreamed it would lead to the Winter Soldier following him through half the kingdom.

Bucky Barnes is a rising Hollywood star with a tragic past and a reputation for driving his bodyguards away. Steve Rogers is a veteran with the same tragic past and the need to get back out in the world. The two of them have been estranged since they were teenagers, so when Steve joins SHIELD as a bodyguard, he is less than thrilled when he finds out that Bucky is his first assignment. But how bad can it be? They're both professional adults, right?

Natasha comes home with intel regarding the fate of the Winter Soldier; Steve leaves to go and avenge Bucky Barnes.

  “It's a list of everyone who was involved in his death, and a rough timeline of everything that happened beforehand,” she tells him.

“And the notebook?”

In a world where magic is as commonplace as electricity, HYDRA worships a god who craves order through death. They used His blood to create fierce Soldiers then enslaved them by chaining their souls.

The man who was James Barnes is the last Soldier, the rest having been put down after succumbing to the call of the Blood. One night, out of control after a mission, the increasingly unstable Soldier runs into Steve Rogers. Instead of being turned into a red smear on the ground, Steve successfully talks him down. HYDRA decides to keep him. The Soldier's the last one they've got; if Steve can keep him calm he's going to do it whether he likes it or not.